Scouting report: This is the first game of the four-game season series, with the Bulls also visiting on March 29 . . . The Bulls won last season's series 2-1, with the Heat 2-3 at home against Chicago over the previous three seasons . . . The teams finished tied at 41-41 last season, with Chicago winning the No. 8 seed and final playoff berth in the Eastern Conference playoffs by the head-to-head tiebreaker . . . The Bulls underwent...

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When/Where: 7:30 p.m., AmericanAirlines Arena.
Tickets: Available at heat.com or 800-4NBA-TIX.
TV: Fox Sports Sun. Radio: 790-AM, 106.3-FM, 710-AM (Spanish).
Scouting report: This is the first game of the four-game season series, with the Bulls also...

Here he is again, banging his head against the same wall.
"It's OK," Larry Drew II said with a laugh, "I don't think I have any brain damage because of it."
For the third time in the past five years, Drew has signed a training-camp contract with the...

Forward Udonis Haslem has been voted the Miami Heat's Teammate of the Year in the National Basketball Players Association's Players Voice Awards.
Haslem, who served mostly in a mentorship role as team captain, was part of the annual awards presentation...

When/Where: 7:30 p.m., AmericanAirlines Arena.
Tickets: Available at heat.com or 800-4NBA-TIX.
TV: Fox Sports Sun. Radio: 790-AM, 106.3-FM, 710-AM (Spanish).
Scouting report: This is the final game of the two-game season series . . . The Pelicans...

A look at the starting lineups and inactives, as well as referees and a pregame note of note for Friday's 8 p.m. game between the Heat and Pelicans at Smoothie King Center (TV: Fox Sports Sun. Radio: 790-AM, 106.3-FM, 710-AM.)
Starting lineups
MIAMI...

When/Where: 8 p.m., Smoothie King Center, New Orleans.
TV: Fox Sports Sun. Radio: 790-AM, 106.3-FM, 710-AM (Spanish).
Scouting report: This is the first game of the two-game season series, with the Pelicans to visit AmericanAirlines Arena on...

When/Where: 8 p.m., Smoothie King Center, New Orleans.
TV: Fox Sports Sun. Radio: 790-AM, 106.3-FM, 710-AM (Spanish).
Scouting report: This is the second game of the two-game season series . . . The Heat won the first meeting 94-88 in overtime on...

When/Where: 12 p.m., AmericanAirlines Arena.
Tickets: Available at HEAT.com or 1-800-4NBA-TIX.
TV: Fox Sports Sun, ESPN. Radio: 790-AM, 106.3-FM, 710-AM (Spanish).
Scouting report: This is the first game of the two-game season series . . . The Pelicans...

When/Where: 8 p.m., Smoothie King Center, New Orleans.
TV: Fox Sports Sun. Radio: 790-AM, 106.3-FM.
Scouting report: This concludes the preseason for both teams . . . This is the only game the Pelicans will play on their home court this preseason,...

Observations from Sunday night's 103-87 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies at FedExForum:
-- It has to start with a renewed focus on the defense.
-- Even if that means a systematic change.
-- Because while next Monday is the first day players signed in...

As he sat in a folding chair just outside of the locker room at AmericanAirlines Arena, Danny Granger surprisingly did not have the look of someone who had been consistently blindsided.
And yet, how could he possibly have seen so much of this...

Nikola Mirotic’s eventful 2017-18 season — and, really, his 3½ years in Chicago — came to the conclusion he wanted Thursday when the Bulls traded him and a 2018 second-round draft pick to the Pelicans for a first-round pick, Omer Asik, Tony Allen and...

The
New Orleans Pelicans
acquired forward
Nikola Mirotic
and a second-round draft pick from the
Chicago Bulls
for center
Omer Asik
, guards Jameer Nelson and
Tony Allen
, and a first-round pick.
The trade, announced by...

The Bulls didn’t have Kris Dunn, Lauri Markkanen or Nikola Mirotic.
The Trail Blazers had C.J. McCollum.
And for one quarter, that was enough.
Heck, McCollum needed only three to score his career-high 50 points.
McCollum set a Trail Blazers...

This is new territory for Justin Holiday. And that’s not simply a reference to averaging in double figures for the first time or playing the most minutes on a team.
Being a leader, someone whom teammates look at as an example, is as a big a change for the...

Facing potential back-to-back defensive assignments against the Wizards’ John Wall and Trail Blazers’ Damian Lillard, should the latter return Monday from his hamstring injury, might cause some recently injured players to take a day off.
Not the Bulls’...

The Bulls’ four-game trip offered a brief respite from the Bobby Portis-Nikola Mirotic saga because Mirotic didn’t travel.
With the team back in Chicago and Mirotic increasing his workouts, it’s obvious he will soon be cleared to practice.
Given that...

TV/radio: 2:30 p.m. Sunday; WGN-9, WLS-AM 890.
Storylines: The Heat are coming off a road victory over the Timberwolves and arrived in Chicago before the Bulls did. The Heat prevailed 97-91 at home in the first meeting on Nov. 1 despite Lauri Markkanen’s...

Quincy Pondexter doesn’t need a holiday to give thanks. He doesn’t need playing time to be grateful.
In and out of the rotation for the rebuilding Bulls, he’s happy to be playing the game he loves again. He’s grateful to be alive.
Pondexter had a...